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19 Cards in this Set
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civil war
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a war between people who live in the same nation
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popular sovereignty
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the vote of the people decides an issue
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rebellion
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a fight against the government or the people in power
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oppose
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to be against or act against something
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slavery
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when a person who is owned by another person that can be sold at the owners will
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arsenal
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a place where weapons are stored
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Free Soilers
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people who believed that slavery should not be allowed in the western territories
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secede
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to leave an organization
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Confederacy (The Confederate States of America)
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the southern states the seceded at the beginning of the Civil War
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The Underground Railroad
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was a network of secret routes and safe houses used by 19th-century black slaves in the United States to escape to free states
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the Union
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the United States of America
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"Bleeding Kansas"
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when Kansas became a state, there was much bloody fighting over whether it should be a free or slave state.
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the Dred Scott Decision
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an 1875 Supreme Court decision that said a slave was still a slave even if he/she was on free soil. Also the Compromise of 1850 was made unconstitutional.
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The compromise of 1850
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A second compromise,led by Henry Clay, to hold the Union together. California joined the Union as a free state. New Mexico and Utah were to decide by popular sovereignty, a stricter Fugitive Slave Act, and slaves would no longer be bought and sold in Washington D.C.
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The Missouri Compromise 1820
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A compromise led by Henry Clay that kept the balance of free and slave states when Missouri joined the Union. Missouri became a slave state, Maine became a free state, and the boundaries of Missouri would decide the status of all new states(north of MS would be free, south of MS would be slave)
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Abolitionist
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a person who wanted to end slavery
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Fredrick Douglass
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an American slave who became a leader of the abolitionist movement, he wrote many anti-slavery texts
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Abraham Lincoln
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the 16th president of the United States, president during the Civil War
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the Fugitive Slave Act
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A law that was passed in 1850 (as part of the compromise of 1850). It declared that all runaway slaves were, upon capture, to be returned to their masters.
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